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Excerpt from this article:
"The new head of the U.S. pardon office, the
official responsible for vetting federal inmate applicants for
presidential grants of clemency, was the key point person in
connecting President Obama to Weather Underground terrorist Bill
Ayers...Ayers has written about his involvement with
the Weather Underground’s bombings of the New York City Police
headquarters in 1970, the Capitol in 1971 and the Pentagon in 1972. 'I don’t regret setting bombs. I feel we
didn’t do enough,” Ayers told the New York Times in an interview
released Sept. 11, 2001. 'Everything was absolutely ideal on the day
I bombed the Pentagon,' Ayers wrote in his memoirs, titled 'Fugitive Days.' He continued with a disclaimer that he didn’t
personally set the bombs but that his group set the explosives and
planned the attack."
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The
new head of the U.S. pardon office, the official responsible for
vetting federal inmate applicants for presidential grants of clemency,
was the key point person in connecting President Obama to Weather
Underground terrorist Bill Ayers.
Deborah Leff, currently a senior adviser to Attorney General Eric
Holder, will take over the Office of the Pardon Attorney, the Justice
Department announced yesterday.
Also yesterday, the Justice Department announced six new guidelines
for presidential pardon that will drastically broaden the number of
those eligible among the prison population of non-violent offenders.
The new guidelines will make it easier to pardon offenders convicted
of long drug offenses under laws that were stricter at the time of
conviction.
Aaron Klein’s “Impeachable Offenses: The Case to Remove Barack Obama from Office” is available, autographed, at WND’s Superstore
Deputy Attorney General James Cole told reporters the new guidelines
will focus on shortening sentences for those imprisoned under previous
rules that saw little disparity between powdered cocaine and crack
cocaine.
In 2010, Obama signed the Fair Sentencing Act, which lowered the
amount of crack and powdered cocaine that would violate federal law from
a 100:1 weight ratio to 18:1 while eliminating a five-year mandatory
minimum sentence for possession of crack cocaine.
Major news media reports yesterday covered the new pardon guidelines
as well as the appointment of Leff to her new position. However,
entirely unreported was Leff’s previous relationships with Ayers and
Obama as well as her anti-gun activism.
Leff served in the 1990s as president of the Joyce Foundation, an education reform and anti-gun activist group.
Obama served on the Joyce Foundation board from 1994 to 2002. He was named to the board by Leff.
While Leff served as Joyce’s president, the non-profit provided
critical start-up capital to the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, or CAC, an
education reform group founded by Ayers.
Obama worked closely with Ayers at the CAC and was appointed in 1995 as chairman of the organization’s board.
Obama would later
cite his CAC position as evidence of his qualification for public office.
Leff told the New York Times in 2008 that she was the one who first suggested Obama as Annenberg Challenge board chairman.
Obama worked closely with Ayers
Working at the Chicago Annenberg Challenge in 1995, Obama had a close
relationship with Ayers, according to the CAC’s own archived records.
The records also show Obama’s and Ayers’ foundation granted money to
radical leftist activist causes.
News reports, archived records, interviews and Ayers’ own curriculum
vitae document that Ayers was the founder of the CAC, which billed
itself as a school-reform organization. Ayers also served as co-chairman
of the Chicago School Reform Collaborative, one of the two operational
arms of the CAC, from its formation in 1995 until 2000.
In response to a query by National Review Online writer Stanley
Kurtz, the Obama 2008 presidential campaign issued a statement claiming
Ayers was not involved with Obama’s “recruitment” to the CAC board. The
statement said Leff and Patricia Albjerg Graham, who served as
presidents of other foundations, recruited Obama.
But Kurtz reviewed the CAC archives at the Richard J. Daley Library
at the University of Illinois at Chicago, which houses CAC board meeting
minutes and other documentation from the education foundation. He found
that along with Leff and Graham, Ayers was in a working group of five
people who assembled the initial board of the CAC, which hired Obama.
“Ayers founded CAC and was its guiding spirit. No one would have been
appointed the CAC chairman without his approval,” Kurtz wrote in a Wall
Street Journal opinion piece.
Indeed, several articles in 1994 and 1995 in the Chicago Tribune
detailed Ayers’ extensive work to secure the original grant for the CAC
from a national education initiative by Ambassador Walter Annenberg, as
well as Ayers’ molding of the CAC guidelines. It would have been unusual
for Ayers not to have been involved in the selection of Obama.
Kurtz reported that the CAC archives demonstrated Obama and Ayers
worked as a team to further the foundation’s agenda. Obama was in charge
of fiscal matters, while Ayers’ position was more concerned with
shaping educational policy.
The documents showed Ayers served as an ex-officio member of the
board that Obama chaired through the CAC’s first year. Ayers also served
on the board’s governance committee with Obama and worked with him to
craft CAC bylaws, according to the documents.
Ayers made presentations to board meetings chaired by Obama. Ayers
also spoke for the Chicago School Reform Collaborative before Obama’s
board, while Obama periodically spoke for the board at meetings of the
collaborative, the CAC documents reviewed by Kurtz show.
According to the documents, the CAC granted money to far-left causes,
such as the now-defunct Association of Community Organizations for
Reform Now, or ACORN, which,
WND previously reported, had done work on behalf of Obama’s presidential campaign.
WND broke the story
that while Obama chaired the board of the CAC, more than $600,000 was
granted to an organization founded by Ayers and run by Mike Klonsky, a
former top communist activist. Klonsky was leader of the
Marxist-Leninist Communist Party, which was effectively recognized by
China as the all-but-official U.S. Maoist party.
Confirms Kurtz: “Instead of funding schools directly, [the CAC]
required schools to affiliate with ‘external partners,’ which actually
got the money. Proposals from groups focused on math/science achievement
were turned down. Instead CAC disbursed money through various far-left
community organizers, such as ACORN.”
In 1995, the year Ayers founded the CAC, he gave an interview for
author Ron Chepesiuk’s book “Sixties Radicals” in which Ayers stated,
“I’m a radical, leftist, small ‘c’ communist.”
Kurtz notes that in his book “Teaching Toward Freedom,” Ayers states
his goal is to “teach against oppression,” which Kurtz noted Ayers
defines as “against America’s history of evil and racism, thereby
forcing social transformation.”
The CAC, however, was not Obama’s only working relationship with the unrepentant terrorist, Ayers.
In a
widely circulated article, WND first reported
Obama served on the board of the Woods Fund, a liberal Chicago
nonprofit, alongside Ayers from 1999 to Dec. 11, 2002, according to the
Fund’s website. Tax filings show Obama received compensation of $6,000
per year for his service in 1999 and 2000.
The two appeared together as speakers at several public events,
including a 1997 University of Chicago panel titled “Should a child ever
be called a ‘super predator?’” and another panel for the University of
Illinois in April 2002 titled “Intellectuals: Who needs them?”
Ayers has written about his involvement with the Weather
Underground’s bombings of the New York City Police headquarters in 1970,
the Capitol in 1971 and the Pentagon in 1972.
“I don’t regret setting bombs. I feel we didn’t do enough,” Ayers
told the New York Times in an interview released Sept. 11, 2001.
“Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed the Pentagon,”
Ayers wrote in his memoirs, titled “Fugitive Days.” He continued with a
disclaimer that he didn’t personally set the bombs but that his group
set the explosives and planned the attack.
With
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The
new head of the U.S. pardon office, the official responsible for
vetting federal inmate applicants for presidential grants of clemency,
was the key point person in connecting President Obama to Weather
Underground terrorist Bill Ayers.
Deborah Leff, currently a senior adviser to Attorney General Eric
Holder, will take over the Office of the Pardon Attorney, the Justice
Department announced yesterday.
Also yesterday, the Justice Department announced six new guidelines
for presidential pardon that will drastically broaden the number of
those eligible among the prison population of non-violent offenders.
The new guidelines will make it easier to pardon offenders convicted
of long drug offenses under laws that were stricter at the time of
conviction.
Aaron Klein’s “Impeachable Offenses: The Case to Remove Barack Obama from Office” is available, autographed, at WND’s Superstore
Deputy Attorney General James Cole told reporters the new guidelines
will focus on shortening sentences for those imprisoned under previous
rules that saw little disparity between powdered cocaine and crack
cocaine.
In 2010, Obama signed the Fair Sentencing Act, which lowered the
amount of crack and powdered cocaine that would violate federal law from
a 100:1 weight ratio to 18:1 while eliminating a five-year mandatory
minimum sentence for possession of crack cocaine.
Major news media reports yesterday covered the new pardon guidelines
as well as the appointment of Leff to her new position. However,
entirely unreported was Leff’s previous relationships with Ayers and
Obama as well as her anti-gun activism.
Leff served in the 1990s as president of the Joyce Foundation, an education reform and anti-gun activist group.
Obama served on the Joyce Foundation board from 1994 to 2002. He was named to the board by Leff.
While Leff served as Joyce’s president, the non-profit provided
critical start-up capital to the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, or CAC, an
education reform group founded by Ayers.
Obama worked closely with Ayers at the CAC and was appointed in 1995 as chairman of the organization’s board.
Obama would later
cite his CAC position as evidence of his qualification for public office.
Leff told the New York Times in 2008 that she was the one who first suggested Obama as Annenberg Challenge board chairman.
Obama worked closely with Ayers
Working at the Chicago Annenberg Challenge in 1995, Obama had a close
relationship with Ayers, according to the CAC’s own archived records.
The records also show Obama’s and Ayers’ foundation granted money to
radical leftist activist causes.
News reports, archived records, interviews and Ayers’ own curriculum
vitae document that Ayers was the founder of the CAC, which billed
itself as a school-reform organization. Ayers also served as co-chairman
of the Chicago School Reform Collaborative, one of the two operational
arms of the CAC, from its formation in 1995 until 2000.
In response to a query by National Review Online writer Stanley
Kurtz, the Obama 2008 presidential campaign issued a statement claiming
Ayers was not involved with Obama’s “recruitment” to the CAC board. The
statement said Leff and Patricia Albjerg Graham, who served as
presidents of other foundations, recruited Obama.
But Kurtz reviewed the CAC archives at the Richard J. Daley Library
at the University of Illinois at Chicago, which houses CAC board meeting
minutes and other documentation from the education foundation. He found
that along with Leff and Graham, Ayers was in a working group of five
people who assembled the initial board of the CAC, which hired Obama.
“Ayers founded CAC and was its guiding spirit. No one would have been
appointed the CAC chairman without his approval,” Kurtz wrote in a Wall
Street Journal opinion piece.
Indeed, several articles in 1994 and 1995 in the Chicago Tribune
detailed Ayers’ extensive work to secure the original grant for the CAC
from a national education initiative by Ambassador Walter Annenberg, as
well as Ayers’ molding of the CAC guidelines. It would have been unusual
for Ayers not to have been involved in the selection of Obama.
Kurtz reported that the CAC archives demonstrated Obama and Ayers
worked as a team to further the foundation’s agenda. Obama was in charge
of fiscal matters, while Ayers’ position was more concerned with
shaping educational policy.
The documents showed Ayers served as an ex-officio member of the
board that Obama chaired through the CAC’s first year. Ayers also served
on the board’s governance committee with Obama and worked with him to
craft CAC bylaws, according to the documents.
Ayers made presentations to board meetings chaired by Obama. Ayers
also spoke for the Chicago School Reform Collaborative before Obama’s
board, while Obama periodically spoke for the board at meetings of the
collaborative, the CAC documents reviewed by Kurtz show.
According to the documents, the CAC granted money to far-left causes,
such as the now-defunct Association of Community Organizations for
Reform Now, or ACORN, which,
WND previously reported, had done work on behalf of Obama’s presidential campaign.
WND broke the story
that while Obama chaired the board of the CAC, more than $600,000 was
granted to an organization founded by Ayers and run by Mike Klonsky, a
former top communist activist. Klonsky was leader of the
Marxist-Leninist Communist Party, which was effectively recognized by
China as the all-but-official U.S. Maoist party.
Confirms Kurtz: “Instead of funding schools directly, [the CAC]
required schools to affiliate with ‘external partners,’ which actually
got the money. Proposals from groups focused on math/science achievement
were turned down. Instead CAC disbursed money through various far-left
community organizers, such as ACORN.”
In 1995, the year Ayers founded the CAC, he gave an interview for
author Ron Chepesiuk’s book “Sixties Radicals” in which Ayers stated,
“I’m a radical, leftist, small ‘c’ communist.”
Kurtz notes that in his book “Teaching Toward Freedom,” Ayers states
his goal is to “teach against oppression,” which Kurtz noted Ayers
defines as “against America’s history of evil and racism, thereby
forcing social transformation.”
The CAC, however, was not Obama’s only working relationship with the unrepentant terrorist, Ayers.
In a
widely circulated article, WND first reported
Obama served on the board of the Woods Fund, a liberal Chicago
nonprofit, alongside Ayers from 1999 to Dec. 11, 2002, according to the
Fund’s website. Tax filings show Obama received compensation of $6,000
per year for his service in 1999 and 2000.
The two appeared together as speakers at several public events,
including a 1997 University of Chicago panel titled “Should a child ever
be called a ‘super predator?’” and another panel for the University of
Illinois in April 2002 titled “Intellectuals: Who needs them?”
Ayers has written about his involvement with the Weather
Underground’s bombings of the New York City Police headquarters in 1970,
the Capitol in 1971 and the Pentagon in 1972.
“I don’t regret setting bombs. I feel we didn’t do enough,” Ayers
told the New York Times in an interview released Sept. 11, 2001.
“Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed the Pentagon,”
Ayers wrote in his memoirs, titled “Fugitive Days.” He continued with a
disclaimer that he didn’t personally set the bombs but that his group
set the explosives and planned the attack.
With
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